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# The many patents of Steve Jobs
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/the-many-patents-of-steve-jobs/
- Published: 2011-10-06T19:23:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:51:20.000Z
- Description: The New York Times has a lovely infographic detailing the 317 Apple patents in which the late Steve Jobs had a hand-from the iPod to the glass staircases in Apple Stores. Only nine Microsoft patents carry the name of Bill Gates, a co-founder of the company who was its chief executive for more than t
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*The New York Times* has a lovely infographic detailing the 317 Apple patents in which the late Steve Jobs had a hand-from the iPod to the glass staircases in Apple Stores.

> Only nine Microsoft patents carry the name of Bill Gates, a co-founder of the company who was its chief executive for more than two decades before stepping down in 2000\. And little more than a dozen Google patents carry the names of the co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to a search of the[United States Patent and Trademark Office Web site](http://www.uspto.gov/?ref=killscreen.com).

Check it out [here](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html?pagewanted=all&ref=killscreen.com).